Apparatus for treating wool and other fibrous substances



G. BAILEY AND W. ROBERTSHAW. APPARATUS FOR TREATING WOOL AND OTHER HBRous SUBSTANCES.

. APPLICATION FILED JULY 1,19l9. 1,432,825.

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entree. stares ASSIGNQRS 0F ONE-THIRD I ENGLAND.

T0 HERBERT FOEHPEB ANDERTON, OF BRADFORD,

APPARATUS FOR TREATING WOOL AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES.

Application filed July 1,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GREENWOOD BAILEY and lVILSON ,ROBERTSI-IAW, subjects of the King of Great Britain, and residents respectively of 38 Aireville Road, Frizinghall, Bradford, in the county of York, England, and 248 VVellesley Terrace, Lumb Lane, Bradford, aforesaid, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Apparatus for Treating ool and Other Fibrous Substances,of which the following description,together with the accompanyin g sheets of drawings, is a specification.

Our invention relates to machines for preparing and treating wool and like fibrous substances of the type known as preparers, gill boxes and the like. In this type of machine it is usual for the wool that is fed to the first machine in the series to be thereby gilled, passed through. and drawn out of said machine into the form of'a sliver which sliver is usually wound around a broad belt or apron which encirclestwo driving rollers. WVhen said sliver has been made to coil upon said moving belt until the desired number of layers, have been wound thereon the attendant severs or breaks the sliver in order to be enabled todetach and remove same from itsapron or driving belt. After its removalfroln. said travelling belt it is transferredfto the next machine .which is ofasimilar kind and which in'like manner again gills or treats the wool or like fibrous wherein the sliver is delivered into a receiv our said apparatus or devices, thereby to.

be transferred: to the neXt machine in such order and condition that the handling of same by the attendant is entirely avoided in the stages between the machines. Thus after the feeding of the wool or like fibrous Serial No. 308,028.

substances to the first machine by the at-' Fig. 3 is plan of the apparatus shown by' Pigs. land 2.

Fig. 1 is an elevation on an enlarged scale showing certain parts hereinafter described.

Fig. 5 is a similar view, showing the parts in different position from those illustrated in Fig. 4.

Fig. (3 is a plan of partsshown in Fig.

The framework A is that. of the leading};

machine while theframework li is that of the succeeding machine, the former being what is known as a preparer and the latter a gill box, while the apparatus which is situated between the two isof our invention.

To the framework of the two machines A B are fixed the bars f, f, f and which extend vertically so that they may be joined together at their upper ends by the cross bars 7, f and f, On these bars are fixed bearings or supports 15, 15 upon which is mounted a shaft 16 extending from one side of the apparatus to the other. On the outer ends of this shaft 16 are mounted to oscillate the arms 17 17 which. extend.

vertically on each side of the machine so that at their lower extremities there may be mounted two rollers 12 and 14-, which are supported in brackets 19, 19 fixed to the lower ends of said arms 17, 17. These arms 17 17 have oscillatory motion transmitted to them through. the rods 20, 20 connected thereto and to the cranks 22 and 22", carried by the driving pulleys 23 23 which are mounted upon a cross shaft 23. Thesepulleys 23, 23* derive rotary motion through the belts 24:, 24 which take over the pulleys 3", 23 mounted upon the shaft of the upper roller 2 in the machine A.

The upper roller 2 and the lower roller 3 upper end-0t the-framework f-f we mount three rollers 10, 11 and 13 which are free to revolve thereon and-these arerotated by the driving aprons or belts 8 and 9. -T he belt 8 '(wvliich is endless) takes around the lower roller 5 and extends over the roller down and around the lower surface oi the roller 12 returning back over the upper surface of the roller- 11. The belt 9 (which is also endless) takes around the upper roller 6 and. extends over the upper surface of the roller l3 down under the roller 1% forward and over the top oi? the roller ll. Thus theadjoining portions 6 and c of; the belts 8 and 9 are in close contiguity with each other at the two parts shown by Fig. 2; That is to say the two portions Z), (1 thereof which extend 'lrom the rollers 41 and G to the roller l l and from said roller 1i to'the rollers 12 and 1-{1T are relatively close together.

i Ontheouter ends oi the rollers 5' and 6 are fixed thetoothed gearing wheels 5 and 6 T respectively and these derive rotary motion from a wheel 3 which is fixed on the end of the shaft of the roller 3 and gears with the tootherwheel 3 which also gears with the wheel 5.

The pendant arms 17, 17 are counterbalanced by the weights 17 and 17 which are fixed upon arms extending horizontally from said arms 17, 1'7 respectively.

Upon the arms 17, 17, is mounted a cross shaft 29, in appropriate bearings fixed upon said arms 17, 17. ()n this cross shaft 29 are fixed the pendant arms 28, 28 which have horizontal arms 30 and 30. Connected tothese arms 30, 30 are connecting rods 31, 81 respectively which reach to be connected to the levers 32, 32 mounted upon the cross shaft This shaft 33 is free to oscillate in bearings 33 and 33 mounted on, the arms 17 and 17 respectively, and is actuated hereinafter described. Upon the lower ends OfiJhB arms 28, 28 is fixed the cross shaft 27.- The position of the shaft 29 and the length of the arms 28, 28 are such as'to enable the cross bar 27 to pass beneath the rollers 12 and k when oscillated about said she it 29 as hereinafter described. The

lever arms 32, 3i are in such positions relatively to the cross shaft 33 that at one time as when in the position shown by Fig. 1 said arms 32, 32 will raise against stop pieces r which are carried by the brackets supporting said, shaft 33 and: when in this position said levers 32, 82 will have moved the rods 31, 31 and levers and 30 to cause the shaft 29 to oscillate. and carry with it the arms 28 and 28 in order to bring the cross bar on shaft 27 to the position to the left oi the rollers 12 and 14; as shown by Fig. 1.

lVhen the arms inbroken lines Fig. 2, into the position shown by full lines in said Fig. 2 in which position the cranks 22 and 22 will have reached their extremitiesshown by said Fig. 2the lever-s 32 and 32- wilh hare coma in contact with a stop piece 34-. fixed upon the.

. Mounted upon supports are rollers 51 and 52 around which passes a trz'i.'ellin; apron or belt which travels between the twoside plates 26, 26 so. that any fibrous. substances placed thereon are fed to the ma.

chincB by said travelling-a 'jron25.

The operations of the several parts are as follows: On the machine A delivering or discharging the treated wool or fibrous substancesjlirom it, said, wool! or fibrous subs stances s or are IGCGIVGLl between the rollers 5 and 6 and between thewtravelling. belts SI and 9. The said travelling belts 8 and 9receive said delivered wool 'between their two contiguous surfaces Z) 0 and carry it up. wards to and over the top ot the roller 11 and beneath the roller 13 down to the. rollers 12 and 14, 'wh'ichrollers 12 and 14 pay out ordeliver said wool or fibrous substances.

on to the travelling belt25 beneath. i

As the travelling belts 8 and are thus delivering the wool which has been supplied to them, thecranks 22 and 22 will be caus-. ing the arms 17, 17" to oscillate so thatv the rollers 12'and 14. are carried fromright to left and left to ri ht over the travelling 17, 17 are brought. from their posit on-shown in full lines Fig. 1 and sliver or sheet of fibres at each extremity of the path of movement of the rollers 12, 14, so that each layer of material deposited on the belt 25 is entirely separate from its preceding and succeeding layer. Hence the fibres are presented in the right direction and condition for being fed to the succeeding machine.

lVe may here observe that the apparatus We have herein described is (as is hereinbefore stated)-mounted between pairs of machines in the place heretofore occupied by the attendant in order to transfer the fibres from one part to another so that Whatever the number of machines may be in the series of machines used our said apparatus is mounted between each two of said machines in the series until the last machine is reached as will be understood.

Such being the nature and object of our said invention, What We claim is 1-- l. A conveyor for carrying WOOl from one machine to another, comprising travelling belts or aprons, rollers situated near the delivery rollers of one of the preparing or gilling machines, bearings for said rollers, gearing for transmitting motion to said rollers, guldlng rollers for said travelling belts, supports for said guiding rollers, oscillatory arms, bearings for said arms, means for imparting oscillatory motion to said arms, supplementary arms pivoted upon, the oscillatory arms, a cross bar carried by the lower ends of said supplementary arms and means whereby additional or independent oscillatory motion is transmitted to said supplementary arms.

2. A conveyor for carrying Wool from one machine to another, comprising travelling belts or aprons, rollers situated near the delivery rollers 01 one of the preparing or gilling machines, bearings for said rollers, guiding rollers for said travelling belts, supports for said guiding rollers, oscillatory arms, bearings for said arms, means for imparting oscillatory motion to said arms, supplementary arms mounted upon the oscillatory arms, a cross bar carried by the supplementary arms, connecting l'evers, said levers and means for operating same.

3. A conveyor for carrying Wool from one machine to another, comprising travelling belts or aprons, rollers situated near the delivery rollers of one of the preparing or gilling machines, bearings for said rollers, guiding rollers for said travelling belts, supports for said guiding rollers, oscillatory arms, bearings for said arms, means for imparting oscillatory motion to said arms, supplementary arms, a cross bar carried by said arms, rods and levers for operating said arms, and devices fixed upon supports for operating said supplementary arms when the oscillating arms are approaching the extremity of their path of motion.

GREENWVOOD BAILEY. WILSON ROBERTSHAW'. 

